India to me seems like a fascinating country. Everyone I’ve met from India always seems lovely, friendly and happy to help. The food is awesome (who doesn’t love a good curry?) and the clothes are all bright, colourful and really comfy. Plus, having attended the Sikh wedding of a good mate of mine, they really know how to party.

Ruthless, from Alley Cat Games is very much like a firework. Not the type of firework that goes off randomly at 11:36pm on a Thursday night in March, waking the dog up, and thus you. No, Ruthless is like a firework in that despite the fact you’ve played many other deck builders, this one will make you go “Ooohhh”, like you do when watching fireworks, despite having seen many fireworks go off before.

Jamie Noble Frier, designer of Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails, has specifically asked me to
avoid referencing Munchkin in my review of his game. And who can blame
him? Munchkin is a stodgy mess that takes far too long and is far too
chaotic, its no surprise that our resident fan of all things bad, Mr Jon
Cage, rather likes it. But its difficult to talk about Hero Master
without mentioning Munchkin, as on the surface the games are so very
much alike.

Both games involve a party of bumbling heroes going
on adventures, both games put their humour front and centre-with
humorous card names and silly flavour text-and both games teach us that
victory is best achieved by playing the most erect of dick-moves. I
could go on, but while Hero Master may cover the same broad strokes of
theme and style, it is a vastly superior game as it provides a tight and
strategic experience that still manages to be chaotic and downright
silly.

The Champions of Chance continue their adventures in Storm King's Thunder from Wizards of the Coast. We are playing Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, using Roll20 to play. In our latest instalment, the heroes venture to the farming city of Goldenfields, only to find that it was recently attacked by giants.

You can watch the entire adventure on YouTube and don’t forget to join us in Twitch, every Thursday at 1930 BST for more ramshackle shenanigans as we continue the adventure of the Champions of Chance and follow the adventures of the Masters of Fate (or team frozen balls as they are more commonly known). Available at: https://www.twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider

Those of you that listen to the Polyhedron Collider Cast (and if you don’t we’d really love you to give it a listen) will know that the boys from the PHC have become well and truly addicted to Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Well due to the magic of the internet you can now join in the fun.

So welcome along as we join the Champions of Chance as they fend off a horde of bloodthirsty orcs from the gates of Nightstone in our Storm King’s Thunder campaign. Of course it wouldn’t be Polyhedron collider without a bit of ramshackle nonsense, and so we apologise for the iffy sound in places.

Don’t forget to join us in Twitch, every Thursday at 1930 BST for more ramshackle shenanigans as we continue the adventure of the Champions of Chance and follow the adventures of the Masters of Fate (or team frozen balls as they are more commonly known).